John Kapelos didn’t have to look too far afield for inspiration for his Days of our Lives alter-ego.

John Kapelos On Konstantin’s Creation

“I had a lot of authentic people around me growing up, let me put it that way,” Kapelos told Soap Opera Digest. “I had a lot of authentic people in my family that spoke very, very similarly to [the way Konstantin does]. So I had great teachers.”

But one, in particular, loomed large in the actor’s memory when he was creating his character: “I modeled him more after an Athenian gentleman that my father knew that was very erudite and quite free with his opinions. He was a lovely guy, but a lot of these Greek guys tend to want to pontificate a bit. I found him to be a little bit like that. And my father was like that too. My father was a bit of a teacher type.”

Like the late Joe Mascolo (Stefano DiMera) before him, Kapelos adopted an accent that many in his orbit assumed was genuine. “A lot of crew people and some actors were surprised because I would just speak like that on the set and then go back to my dressing room. But during rehearsal, occasionally, I would break [from it]. I’ve worked with actors like Hugh Laurie on HOUSE, who would only speak in American and would never speak in an English accent [on set]. I don’t do that. I can break.”

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